Those in the news business who were content to inhabit a cubicle 8 or 10 hours a day are finding pink slips on their keyboards. The rules and requirements for journalists are undergoing extensive and often unpredictable shifts today. Only those people who are able to sense the winds of change and have the courage to make the appropriate adjustments will survive to mentor the next generation of reporters, investigators, editors and publishers.

How do you want to deal with it? Check out this department. You might find something that will make a difference.

This is where we put media topics that are too general or don't seem to fit into any of the other media categories shown for this department. Feel free to browse ... it's the best way to determine what you can learn here.

Do you know what a "real" librarian is like? When you go to the library and approach a "real" librarian, you can read it in the eyes:  "Please have something really exciting I can help you with! Give me any topic, and I'll run with it until you are loaded with relevant books, journals, and references."

Library science is not being excluded from the awesome shifts that are changing most of the media professions. Hardcopy will always be with us, but instant electronic access to the whole of human knowledge is already dominating the means and methods of contemporary librarians.

These courses were once known as speech or public speaking courses. Public presentations in our digital age, however, are being transformed into multimedia events.  The successful public speaker in today's fast-paced, visually oriented society takes advantage of every available presentation tool.